So here is the first Thursday of June

 TERRY

As I write it is now 7:00 AM and Terry is with the paper.  No news is good news I would say as Terry is the same as yesterday.  So as always it is one day at a time and we are so thankful for all that God has given us.  

    I will have to let Agatha, Cynthia's daughter, know that she now is famous.  Hurricane Agatha is approaching Florida and will arrive tomorrow.  It will bring strong winds and much rain.  Not like our Agatha who is fisty but loving and warm hearted!!!

    I have tennis today at 9:00 today.  I think that is about the only thing on my agenda for the day.  I may actually get some work done with loose papers here in the house but I will not promise as surprised often come into play.

I will talk about Daves and my golfing days when we both lived in Fargo.

Four golf courses that we play on

    Dave and I played on three golf courses most of the time and actually two of them almost all the time.  Our favorite was the Ponderosa Golf course along the Buffalo River about 10 miles east of Moorhead.  It was an 18 hole course and the longest hole was over 500 yards as it ran along the upper highland of the course.  On one of the holes you looked down at the hole from a hill maybe 100 yards up.  It tested ALL of your skill in terms of long, short and in between.  That course was the one we played most of the time.

    The cheapest and closest was the El Zagel course which was right in the middle of Fargo.  Given where it was it was only a 9 hole and a par 3.  By that I mean the longest hole was maybe just under 200 yards.  If we were short on time that was our choice.  

    The best, the longest and the most fun was Edgewood Golf Course.  It was in north Fargo and we only played it a couple of times.  WHY?  Well really the reason was the time it took to play.  The real reason was the cost.  I do not remember what the cost was but I am sure we could have played the Ponderosa Course at least twice for the cost of one round at Edgewood.

    Actually I played by myself many times at a course south of Moorhead along highway 75 but as I tried to find it I think it no longer is there.  Just so you know that was where I would put my golf bag over my shoulder and ride my Harley cycle out there just as the sun was making light.  Then at maybe 8:20, just before they opened up I left and went home.  I have confessed and said I was sorry many times for doing that.  There is NO reason to justify playing and not paying.  BUT I told myself that I had more golf balls then coins during those days!!!  I could carry my bag on my motorcycle because I had so little in my golfing bag.  I had a putter, a wood, and then an array of clubs to the tune of 3, 5, 7 and 9 iron.  I had very few golf balls but there was NO place to lose them on the course.  

    That brings to mind where I got golf balls to play.  Well I NEVER had to buy golf balls as at the Ponderosa Course Dave and I would go into the trees and most of the time would come out maybe 10 minutes later with several balls.  We could fine golf balls like a fine retriever would find a pheasant!!!

    That is the story of our golfing days in Fargo-Moorhead.  As I look at the computer today there are more courses today than in our days which were in the years of 65, 66 and 67.  So I end today with still a half cup of coffee so will spend a bit more time on the computer before I sign off and get ready for 9:00 tennis.